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21	Subversive narrative and thematic strategies : a critical appraisal of Fay Weldon's Fiction Dowling, Finuala Rachel 06 1900 (has links) Fay Weldon is a popular, prolific author whose oeuvre stretches from 1967 to the present and includes 20 novels, three collections of short stories and numerous stage, radio and television plays, scripts and adaptations. This thesis limits itself to her fiction and follows the chronological course of Weldon's writing career in five chapters. Fay Weldon's fiction, situated at the intersection of postmodemism and feminism, is doubly subversive. It both overturns 'reasonable' narrative conventions and wittily deconstructs the specious terminology used to define women. Weldon's disobedient female protagonists - madwomen, criminals, outcasts and she-devils - assert the power of the Other. Gynocentric themes - single parenthood, sisterhood, reproduction, motherhood, sex and marriage - are transformed by Weldon into uproarious feminist revenge comedy. This she achieves through an intertextuality which often involves unorthodox typography, genreswopping and metafictional devices. Moreover, a unique ventriloquism enables her omniscient first-person narrators to mimic 'Fay Weldon' herself. Since her narrators are rebels and iconoclasts, Weldon has always been viewed as a subversive individual worthy of media attention, especially interviews. For this reason, and because she is a woman writer who struggled initially against social and domestic odds, the thesis incorporates in its argument the author's biography and public personae. Chapter One explores the connections between Weldon's first novels - notably Down Among the Women (1971) - and early liberationist and anthropological feminism. In Chapter Two, Bakhtin's dialogic imagination and Derrida's differance provide the basis for a discussion of multiplicity in Weldon's novels of the late 1970s, particularly Praxis (1979), shortlisted for the Booker prize. Chapter Three tests the limits of a psychoanalytical model in accounting for Weldon's novels of (m)Otherhood, including The Life and Loves of a SheDevil (1983). Theories of humour and carnival inform Chapter Four's analysis of how Weldon's wit - at its tendentious best in The Heart of the Country (1987) - declines into innocence. Finally, Chapter Five sees Weldon's flagging literary reputation as the symptom of authorial exhaustion and retreat from a feminist agenda. This concluding chapter is, however, ultimately optimistic that the mercurial author's undeniable talents may reassert themselves / English Studies / D.Litt. et Phil. (English) Weldon, Fay Narrative Literary criticism Women novelists Women's writing Twentieth-century authors British Narrative strategies Theme Feminist literature Subversion 823.924 Narration (Rhetoric) Subversive activities. Women authors
22	Contemporary Women Poets of Texas Heatly, Katherine Stafford 08 1900 (has links) As a teacher of American literature in high school, I have become conscious of the importance of teaching students of that age level the lore and poetry of their native state. Poems of nature or local color in their own country will hold their interest when material from more distant points seems dull and uninteresting. Through my teaching I have become interested in the poetry of the Southwest and have enjoyed reading the poetry and knowing the poets through personal interview or correspondence. female poets Texas poets contemporary poetry Robertson, Lexie Dean. Houston, Margaret Bell. Nance, Berta Hart. Montgomery, Vaida Steward. Crowell, Grace Noll -- 1877-1969. Yauger, Fay M'Cormick. Baker, Karle Wilson -- 1878-1960. Women poets, American -- 20th century.
23	Fay M. Jackson: The Sociopolitical Narrative of a Pioneering African American Female Journalist Hughes-Watkins, Lae'l I. 10 June 2008 (has links) No description available. African Americans Biographies Black History Gender Journalism Womens Studies Black Press Fay M. Jackson journalism sociopolitical narrative Black political consciousness national Black identity feminism Black female journalist color consciousness
24	Material Objects as Means of Portraying Female Characters' Personality in the 20th century : As Exemplified in the three Short Stories by J. D. Salinger, V. Woolf and F. Weldon Zelenenkaya, Ekaterina January 2013 (has links) The world we live in is full of material objects that serve as signs and thus are an important tool in literary texts. The purpose of the present essay is to illustrate how material objects are used to portray personalities of female characters, their inner world and attitudes, their ways of life and position in society. It is especially interesting in the context of the 20th century in the Western world, when the culture of consumption was gaining momentum and the role of a woman was gradually changing. The short stories analysed in the essay are written in the Western context in the 20th century, which are “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J.D. Salinger, “Moments of Being: ‘Slater’s Pins Have no Points’” by V. Woolf and “The Bottom Line and the Sharp End” by F. Weldon. The material objects mentioned in the texts are classified and analysed due to their role and purpose in the short stories. Material objects signs gender studies gender female characters social codes short stories material culture literary tool Salinger Jerome David A Perfect Day for Bananafish Woolf Virginia Moments of Being Slater's Pins Have No Points Fay Weldon The Bottom Line and the Sharp End short stories of the 20th century
25	Fay's identity in the theory of integrable systems / L'identité de Fay en théorie des systèmes intégrables Kalla, Caroline 27 June 2011 (has links) Un outil puissant dans le cadre des solutions algébro-géométriques des équations intégrables est l'identité de Fay sur des surfaces de Riemann compactes. Cette relation généralise une identité bien connue pour la fonction birapport dans le plan complexe. Elle permet d'établir des relations entre les fonctions theta et leurs dérivées. Cela offre une approche complémentaire aux solutions algébro-géométriques des équations intégrables avec certains avantages par rapport à l'utilisation des fonctions de Baker-Akhiezer. Cette méthode a été appliquée avec succès par Mumford et al. aux équations Korteweg-de Vries, Kadomtsev-Petviashvili et sine-Gordon. Selon cette approche, nous construisons des solutions algébro-géométriques des équations de Camassa-Holm et de Dym, ainsi que des solutions de l'équation de Schrödinger non linéaire à plusieurs composantes et des équations de Davey-Stewartson. Les limites solitoniques de ces solutions sont étudiées lorsque le genre de la surface de Riemann associée tombe à zéro. De plus, nous présentons une évaluation numérique des solutions algébro-géométriques des équations intégrables lorsque la surface de Riemann associée est réelle. / Fay's identity on Riemann surfaces is a powerful tool in the context of algebro-geometric solutions to integrable equations. This relation generalizes a well-known identity for the cross-ratio function in the complex plane. It allows to establish relations between theta functions and their derivatives. This offers a complementary approach to algebro-geometric solutions of integrable equations with certain advantages with respect to the use of Baker-Akhiezer functions. It has been successfully applied by Mumford et al. to the Korteweg-de Vries, Kadomtsev-Petviashvili and sine-Gordon equations. Following this approach, we construct algebro-geometric solutions to the Camassa-Holm and Dym type equations, as well as solutions to the multi-component nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the Davey-Stewartson equations. Solitonic limits of these solutions are investigated when the genus of the associated Riemann surface drops to zero. Moreover, we present a numerical evaluation of algebro-geometric solutions of integrable equations when the associated Riemann surface is real. EDP Equation de Camassa-Holm Equation de Davez-Stewartson Solutions algébro-géométriques Fonction thêta Surface de Riemann Identité de Fay Ovale réel Thêta diviseur Algorithme de Tretkoff-Tretkoff Courbe algébrique Base d'homologie Dégénérescence de surface de Riemann Application d'uniformisation Soliton Breather rationnel No english keywords 515 516
26	Motivation & Motivierung zum Alterssport / Motivation & motivating to sport and exercise at advanced age Dahlhaus, Jörg 12 November 2004 (has links) No description available. 796 Sport Social Sciences Motivation Alterssport Alternsprozesse Gesundheit Emotionen Bedürfnisse Handlungstheorien sozial kognitive Theorien Stadienmodelle Absicht Vorsatz Intention Barrieren soziale Unterstützung Motivation sport and exercise at advanced age ageing-processes health emotions needs action-theories social cognitive models stage models intention barriers social support 76.11 76.02 76.24 77.45 77.46 77.58 77.61 77.80 44.07 44.70 71.34 71.41 71.51 80.50 FAY 500 FFN 000: Sportpsychologie FYL 100: Breitensport FAE 000: Motivation Emotion und Handlung {Psychologie} FAE 100: Motivationspsychologie FAE 250: Psychologie der Entscheidung Handlungspsychologie FAE 300 FAE 400: Emotionspsychologie Gefühl Affekt FAE 500: Wille Volitionspsychologie FCC 000: Alter FE 000: Sozialpsychologie FFT 000: Gesundheitspsychologie

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